Originally posted by Moggy C
I think it depends where you stand. Or rather sit.

The ‘Spitfire Mk26’ is not meant for looking at or listening to, it’s to enable pilots like me, who will never get to fly a real Spitfire, to have a relatively inexpensive aircraft that isn’t a boring spam can or a superannuated ragwing like I fly at present.

I must admit though I don’t feel calling it a Spitfire 26 does it any favours.

Moggy

I’m not against aircraft such as spitfire mk26,i just feel its wrong to name them that,i think to carry the name of aircraft it “copies” it should be much more faithful to the original like the me262 new builds are,essentially i would love to see more full scale replicas of aircraft maybe time forgot as it were rather than lookalike scaled down aircraft,having said that the mk26 does look quiet good and has got to be fun to fly.

I would not mind full scale replicas of any mark spitfires not currently flying at least then get to see that shape in sky but can,t see the point unless powered by a merlin or griffon personally think the so called mark26 is poor cousin to a real spit and almost cheapens the name.

it ain’t fake

No elections to win yet so no point at least one evil man is in captivity one is still in the whit house mind:D ,as to Bin laden could be a long time before he gets caught and sadly getting him would not solve the terror problems anyway.

As far as i know TFC still own La11 and plan to rebuild it as to OFMC i am so thankful to see a La9 until 1996 i had not even heard of this aircraft i saw both displays at Duxford and reckon she will fly in UK if possible again oneday,seems ironic that people seem so down on OFMC for taking aircraft to NZ Ray Hanna is from there and he has done so much over the years at Airshows here seems selfish to me.

Originally posted by Robbo
Damn, I was hoping to get a last look this weekend.

Fingers crossed that it’ll be back sometime.

Rob

Was hoping to see it again too,surely can’t be forever but got feeling Ray may want to move back to NZ possibly to retire eventually

Personally i have never shown any intrest in his films or him,he a overated in my view,but there is always a place in the world for people like him.Truth or fiction is he any worse than a political leaders lying?i think not really.